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  Adventure capital - The centenary of Hergé's birth is being celebrated at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, which means, of course, a celebration of Tintin. As a child Hergé quickly latched on to the new comic-strip form and, during maths classes, would fill his notebooks with sketches "that were already linked and arranged horizontally". An art teacher told him he'd
- Telegraph | Entertainment | How Tintin took over the universe - A new exhibtion celebrating Hergé, creator of the intrepid reporter, is a blast, says Alastair Sooke
The exhibition consists of several hundred drawings, original artworks and letters by Hergé
Blasting out of the escalators, ventilator shafts and brightly coloured service pipes that criss-cross the exterior of the Pompidou Centre in Paris
- Tintin and Snowy Go to the Museum: Pompidou Center Pays Homage to Hergé - International - SPI - The adventures of Tintin and Snowy turned comic books into an art form. Now their creator Hergé is being honored by a mega-exhibition in Paris. On show are drawings, illustrations and recordings -- and documents of political controversies.
- Tintin's Creator Herge, Comic-Strip Master, Is Feted in Paris - Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Comic books are serious business in France. Last year, French publishers brought out 4,000 titles of ``bandes dessinees,'' selling 13 million copies. There is even a Centre National de la Bande Dessinee in Angouleme that organizes an annual festival for aficionados.
No wonder the Pompidou Center in Paris is commemorating
- Tintin's big art adventure - An exhibition in Paris puts the creator of the blank-faced boy reporter and his clever dog alongside the 20th century's great artists. John Lichfield gets drawn in
Published: 27 December 2006
Blistering barnacles! Ten thousand thundering typhoons! Two decades after his creator's death, a new and glorious episode has been added to the adventur
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